It’s ironic that I usually can’t remember the technical term for when you learn, hear, see or read something for the first time then suddenly you encounter it everywhere.
Goodness me - 1cm squares of silk… think about the fraying……must’ve been a nightmare for those poor people sewing it together and all before backing fabric too. I knew nothing of these hangings although a long admirer of Lucienne. How interesting and also lovely to be reminded of Emma and Matthew’s work too. I was very upset when the idiots removed Mr Paolozzi’s work on the tube. I can remember making a special trip to see it all when it was first installed. On my way to purchase a very special shirt from Workers for Freedom in Soho which had similar design on it. I shall look at the V and A link later. Thank you Jane for another very inspiring and fantastically well researched post. You make every Sunday better
Lovely. I think you’d also enjoy the work of Maud Milton, if you haven’t already come across her. Some gorgeous London mosaics, often including lots of community engagement
What a fascinating piece, as always! I love ceramics and mosaics, even collect sea washed pieces of ceramics (and glass) on every trip to a beach. And turning over the crockery in cafes, or anywhere is perfectly normal, isn't it...? 🧐
Beautiful goal of all those wee silkies joined together… for someone else! Ha! I can barely get large pieces together, but the joy is in the making, right?? There was a shopping center in central Florida we frequented when I was a teen in the 1960s that had the most opulent food mosaics. Obviously the anchor store was a local grocery and the mosaics were commissioned to Italian masters who drew these spectacular works from bits and pieces sourced from a local tile works. Sadly, when I was in that region again a few years ago I discovered the mosaics were gone and the walls were a stylish brown… I wept…..
Great, great, great post … just beautiful work, thanks for posting x I’ve spent hours down the corridors and platforms of Tottenham Court Road tube station in amazement… I love his name created there … what a guy.
Those coincidences you talk about. I have this year re-read a number of Arnold Bennet including Anna of the Five Towns. First time around probably 45 years ago! If you haven’t read the short stories in The Grim Smile of the Five Towns, I strongly recommend them. Some are so funny that I laughed out loud at times. All are very clever and witty.
I love the ‘Made in England’ mosaic - definitely going to see that on my next visit to Stoke. I met the grand daughter of a Potteries paintress at the Persephone Festival this year. We were both upturning the plates in the festival tea room to examine their provenance! (Sadly not made in England.)
Goodness me - 1cm squares of silk… think about the fraying……must’ve been a nightmare for those poor people sewing it together and all before backing fabric too. I knew nothing of these hangings although a long admirer of Lucienne. How interesting and also lovely to be reminded of Emma and Matthew’s work too. I was very upset when the idiots removed Mr Paolozzi’s work on the tube. I can remember making a special trip to see it all when it was first installed. On my way to purchase a very special shirt from Workers for Freedom in Soho which had similar design on it. I shall look at the V and A link later. Thank you Jane for another very inspiring and fantastically well researched post. You make every Sunday better
Lovely. I think you’d also enjoy the work of Maud Milton, if you haven’t already come across her. Some gorgeous London mosaics, often including lots of community engagement
It's lovely - thanks for telling me about her
What a fascinating piece, as always! I love ceramics and mosaics, even collect sea washed pieces of ceramics (and glass) on every trip to a beach. And turning over the crockery in cafes, or anywhere is perfectly normal, isn't it...? 🧐
In terms of London Underground mosaics there’s also the Hitchcock ones at Leytonstone station.
Loved this! Thanks!
Have you seen the mosaics at Leytonstone Station? They illustrate Alfred Hitchcock films and I think you are wonderful!
Beautiful goal of all those wee silkies joined together… for someone else! Ha! I can barely get large pieces together, but the joy is in the making, right?? There was a shopping center in central Florida we frequented when I was a teen in the 1960s that had the most opulent food mosaics. Obviously the anchor store was a local grocery and the mosaics were commissioned to Italian masters who drew these spectacular works from bits and pieces sourced from a local tile works. Sadly, when I was in that region again a few years ago I discovered the mosaics were gone and the walls were a stylish brown… I wept…..
Oh those lovely balloons !
I lived in Finsbury Park in the 80s when the mosaics were just completed and the gold tiles really shone beautifully then … they do look shabby now .
Great, great, great post … just beautiful work, thanks for posting x I’ve spent hours down the corridors and platforms of Tottenham Court Road tube station in amazement… I love his name created there … what a guy.
Those coincidences you talk about. I have this year re-read a number of Arnold Bennet including Anna of the Five Towns. First time around probably 45 years ago! If you haven’t read the short stories in The Grim Smile of the Five Towns, I strongly recommend them. Some are so funny that I laughed out loud at times. All are very clever and witty.
I need to find a copy as I have seen several good reviews of this - thanks for this one
I love the ‘Made in England’ mosaic - definitely going to see that on my next visit to Stoke. I met the grand daughter of a Potteries paintress at the Persephone Festival this year. We were both upturning the plates in the festival tea room to examine their provenance! (Sadly not made in England.)
Enjoying your writing a great deal; so well researched. On mosaics you might like to see the work of Cleo Mussi and her fabulously quirky mosaics.
Yes, it's amazing!
Baader-Meinhof 🙂